My kid just called from his college excited that he had mango lassi French toast. That’s integration

What’s wrong with those voters? No matter how conservative you may be, How do you see your state among the worst education systems and decide they need less money?

Yeah, they need someone to replace undocumented immigrants as exploited labor

Ah, childhood memories. When we went to this one relatives house, I never understood why my parents never let us play with the rabbits.

…. After I grew up, I had to wonder what that funny tasting “chicken” really was. Adult Me wants to know

Voyager I and II are 48 years old running on thermoelectric generators. that’s amazing. They are winding down because the half life of plutonium means there is much less power than when new.

I can see future probes lasting even longer with americium as a fuel source

But introducing moving parts for a sterling engine? In space? And expect it to last like that? Seems unlikely

Do you have a different or specific source? I found an daqnabout lead but it only said that they are in compliance and always have been. I recognize the weasel word but only because you brought it up

7, and my “little” brother still has it 40 years later because he doesn’t want to spend money on dishes

Opposite for me, maybe because I never make bread by hand. Throw in the ingredients, press a button, four hours later fresh hot amazing bread. The only real limitation is a i never figured out a recipe that could hold up for sandwiches

Got the machine during pandemic and it was an instant hit. Our weekend tradition became starting the machine after dinner, sitting down with my teens to play video games. When the machine beeped, we needed a break anyway. It was like six months before there was ever any leftover to put away.

I stopped using the machine when I got my cholesterol numbers back

Let me blow your mind: mini food processor/chopper! Fewer moving parts, much easier to use and clean, and it completes 90% of the tasks I used to use a food processor for.

You want to chop an onion: skin it, quarter, shove it in, brief pulse. Done, put everything in the dishwasher. Perfect size and So much more convenient

Plus one for the glove. I always lived in fear of the mandolin but I got a microplaner that included the glove. Now I use it for the mandolin, the grater and the microplaner. Life changing.

Upvote for freezing as “pages”. It’s good to see someone else thinking that way

Gotta give both rice cooker and cast iron skillets, because they were part of a huge change in what and how I cook. They’ve also both become central to cooking

I’ll always associate curry with COViD, LoL. For the first wave of pandemic where there were no test strips yet …… I was still hoping my family had picked up some sort of cold virus. Until i made curry. I make it very spicy, yet three of us could not taste or smell it. It was a fascinating experience! Followed up with ghost pepper sauce.

Fuck yeah!

Some of these people are truly despicable and deserve all the hate they get and more …. But even they don’t deserve this.

Really, you couldn’t find anything better to object to Kesh Patel than wishing people a happy Diwali?

Excellent! That view was one of the highlights when I went there too, and I remember making similar comments! It’s really cool to be so close yet so very very far in an unnatural direction.

Here’s my picture through the wall instead of the floor - I couldn’t get people off the glass floor long enough to get a picture through that. Too crowded

Looking back ten years I used a different set of tools for a different set of programming languages for different purposes. This has been a general pattern as the industry has evolved over my career.

Yes I have a good depth and breadth of knowledge that would help me pick things up but I’m not sure relearning the technology would be different from learning a new one, and all the frustrations of old tech would be there.

As an example, I’d have to relearn the ins and outs of virtual machines and would be damn frustrated to lose the benefits of containers. All that fiddling around with networks, and being tied to specific component brands to get scalable performance. Having to relearn something like puppet or ansible or chef to build out the machines instead of a straightforward dockerfile. And the frustration of how slow it all is and not being able to run anywhere

Yeah but that’s not an excuse either. Even if your infrastructure only supports cars there are still safer vs cheaper choices. And if that Street view link is any indication, paint the damn lines.

FYI - one of my objections to self-driving cars: we never keep up the maintenance on even painting the lines. When I tried self driving, almost every time I took over was where there were no visible lines on the road

Maybe that’s the real problem, accepting it with “shit happens “. There are many things we should be doing to prevent the majority of these senseless deaths. And it only takes holding onto the outrage to get it done.

A swat on the butt with a magazine is a humiliation fetish now? Holy crap, I thought I was too vanilla